Prime Minister urges innovation, Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue receives French business delegation, Hanoi leader asks for more ODA loans from France, HCM City, Malaysia boost trade cooperation

The HCM City Transport Department has suggested that municipal authorities create a plan to control vehicle emissions and collect pollution fees.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City’s People's Committee has approved the use of Bach Dang Wharf once again for river-based tourism after a three-year gap.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Committee has more than doubled the fee for household garbage collection.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City will reduce the number of waste depots in inner districts while increasing the number in the city’s outlying areas.

Police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for the owner of a BMW who allegedly killed one woman and injured another six after she drove into several vehicles at a traffic light in HCM City last weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City residents have better benefited from the faster administrative services provided by non-state agencies despites shortcomings from these administrative procedures.

UNICEF and partners are organising a new challenge calling on young innovators in HCM City and surrounding provinces to design solutions that will improve skills and training for young people, and empower them 

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City authorities will redesign a proposal for a bus rapid transit (BRT) route after the Department of Transport said the plan was not feasible. 

Plans to build a theatre worth some VND1.5 trillion in Thu Thiem New Urban Area, HCM City, have sparked a public opinion controversy, but Nguyen Thai Binh, speaker of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – You cannot talk about Ho Chi Minh City without mentioning coffee.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The chairwoman of the HCM City People’s Council urged the city’s People’s Committee to seek better solutions to tackle flooding, pollution and traffic congestion 

 VietNamNet Bridge – A decision to implement a programme to reduce traffic congestion and accidents by 2020 was signed by Tran Vinh Tuyen, deputy chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, last Friday.

 ASEAN calls for enhanced anti-terrorism capacity, HCM City, UK promote cooperation between elected agencies, Japan lauds Vietnam’s role in Mekong-Japan cooperation: Ambassador, Vietnam enhances friendship with international friends

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hang Duong Market in coastal district of Can Gio is the best destination for seafood lovers in HCM City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed agencies to continue to use information technology to improve public services online.

The Goda Green Technology Joint-Stock Company has asked permission from the HCM City People’s Committee to place advertisements on rubbish bins in exchange for setting up 12,000 bins around the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City’s economy needs to pick up pace to achieve this year’s growth targets, a meeting held yesterday to review socio-economic development in the first nine months heard.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Collectors of HCM City are hunting for comic series published in Vietnam 20-30 years ago.

A dramatic scene unfolded last week in HCM City when three young workers fell from the Giga Mall construction site on Pham Van Dong Boulevard (Hiep Binh Chanh Ward, Thu Duc District) and were seriously injured,